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"Quiet Va. Wife Ended Interracial Marriage Ban"

"Quiet Va. Wife Ended Interracial Marriage Ban": This obituary appears today on the front page of The Washington Post. In addition, Neely Tucker has written an "appreciation" headlined "Mildred Loving Followed Her Heart and Made History."

Today's edition of The New York Times contains an obituary headlined "Mildred Loving, Who Fought Marriage Ban, Dies."

The Richmond Times-Dispatch contains an obituary headlined "Wife in interracial marriage case dies; Mildred Loving, 68, helped abolish last piece of segregation."

And yesterday, The Free Lance-Star of Fredericksburg, Virginia published an obituary headlined "'Heroine' Mildred Loving dies at 68."

You can access the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling from June 12, 1967 in Loving v. Virginia via this link. And you can listen to the oral argument of the case by clicking here.

Full post as published by How Appealing on May 06, 2008 (boomark / email).